ISO calls for end to OOXML 'personal attacks'
News The ISO committee handling OOXML braved open-source protests to meet in Oslo last week and work out how to ensure interoperability with ODF [14 Apr 2008]
- ISO lost all credibility - samie91
- If there's such strong disagreement, OOXML shouldn't have been fast tracked - SPM
- ISO process has been gamed, why back off? - rkhalloran
- Personal attacks? - ego.sum.stig
- Oh, hating Microsoft is so cool... - LadyRoot
- Mostly right, with critical exceptions - J.A. Watson
- But OOXML is a non-standard - SPM
- The ISO would disagree - dogStar
- de-facto vs. de-jure - rkhalloran
- Yes! Microsoft must be stopped! - ijames
- Microsoft should not dictate standards to ISO - rkhalloran
- Apple and Google are "tech darlings" for a reason... Their stuff rocks. - ijames
- OOXML personal attacks. - ator1940
- O(O)XML and .docx - Moley
- Real Standards - Tezzer
OOXML expert: ODF standard is broken
News The ISO standard for ODF documents is impossible to implement, says an expert who has now found both OpenOffice and Microsoft Office 2007 non-standard compliant [02 May 2008]
- OpenOffice defence: Brown is using the wrong version - PeterJudge
- It is quite simple - RCWeir
- Micrsoft committed to ISO version of OOXML - Albert
- Bottom line: no featureful implementations of ISO/IEC:26300 OpenDocument - Marbux
- My main objections to OOXML are not technical - 1000013186
- Not inconsistent at all - RCWeir
- 'Smoke test' or 'Smoke screen'? - kurizocan2
PC makers find ways to extend XP's life
News Manufacturers such as Dell and HP will continue to offer Windows XP on new machines past Microsoft's 30 June deadline, but customers will still get Vista as part of the deal [28 Apr 2008]
- Problem... - Mosh
- License is Valid for Both XP and VIsta - J.A. Watson
- Only 1 SATA ! - chrishocking
- The power of being a monopoly! - harpless
UK standards body taken to court over OOXML
News The UK Unix & Open Systems Users Group has launched a High Court challenge against the decision by the BSI to approve Microsoft's nascent document format [01 May 2008]
- Good Luck - Moley
- Yes - more balance - Sothis
Microsoft Office 2007 fails OOXML conformance test
News Now that Office Open XML is on its way to becoming an international standard, it could be leaving Microsoft behind [21 Apr 2008]
- Probably not... - PeterJudge
Ballmer: Microsoft may keep XP if users demand it
News Chief executive Steve Ballmer says the company could rethink plans to phase out Windows XP in June if there were enough customer demand [25 Apr 2008]
- Oh Come On! - Moley
Debian: We're not looking for commercial fortune
Q&A Steve McIntyre, newly elected project leader for the Debian GNU/Linux operating system, talks about why the project is not planning to ape the commercial approach taken by Red Hat and Novell/Suse [28 Apr 2008]
SCO chief testifies: 'Linux is copy of Unix'
News Open-source fans have dismissed Darl McBride's court comments in the lawsuit brought against SCO by Novell [02 May 2008]
Debian suffers from community growing pains
News Developers attempting to join the Debian community have criticised the management of the Linux operating system [22 Apr 2008]
Critics brand OOXML a Microsoft 'marketing tool'
News XML author Tim Bray has accused Microsoft of pursuing OOXML standardisation for marketing purposes, while others claim the ISO process is 'broken' and 'politicised' [18 Apr 2008]
Sun criticised for MySQL Enterprise shift
News The company wants to offer some features of MySQL solely to enterprise customers, but critics say this is a sign the company wants to move the database away from its open-source roots [17 Apr 2008]
- The correct business model - dogStar
Proprietary vendors lose £30bn to open source
News Researchers claim that if open-source products and services were calculated at commercial prices, they would exceed the combined income of Microsoft, Oracle and Computer Associates [22 Apr 2008]
- Threatened? - Tezzer
Sun delivers its first MySQL update
News Version 5.1 of MySQL is the first release candidate to be delivered by the open-source database organisation following its acquisition by Sun [16 Apr 2008]
- First announcement...sign of intent - Dan Purvis
Coders claim bypass of Vista security feature
News Developers at free-software firm NeoSmart claim Vista's User Account Control is 'easy to code around' and 'only there to give the impression of security' [28 Apr 2008]
- designed to "annoy users" - ator1940
Mozilla warns of Flash and Silverlight 'agenda'
News The founder of Mozilla Europe claims Adobe and Microsoft's rich-media tech threatens the open nature of the web but concedes they are currently necessary for multimedia content [30 Apr 2008]
Microsoft resumes XP SP3, Vista SP1 updates
News The company is releasing XP SP3 for web downloads and resuming automatic updates to Vista SP1, following an earlier conflict with another Microsoft product [07 May 2008]
- Just install Ubuntu! - dotancohen
Upgraders to XP SP3 warned over IE downgrades
News Microsoft has said XP users who install Service Pack 3 will not be able to roll back their versions of Internet Explorer [09 May 2008]
Trampoline bounces into enterprise social computing
News UK start-up Trampoline Systems's enterprise social-computing software helps workers find and track others in their organisation with specific knowledge [23 Apr 2008]
- deja vu - Brian Murray
Google and Salesforce team up
News After being linked unofficially for some time, the two companies have announced an alliance to extend their CRM software message [14 Apr 2008]
Open source seen as key to SaaS adoption
News By 2010, around 90 percent of software-as-a-service providers will be using open source within their technology 'stacks', says Gartner [17 Apr 2008]
